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UK title *Death of a Godmother* >During her lifetime Mrs. Mottisfont was a domineering, possessive woman, and her sudden death was lamented by no one, Ieast of all her god son, Eric Holcroft, whom she had browbeaten all his life. The story opens with Superintendent Waghorn driving to the remote hamlet of Badgermead to investigate her death, and before long both he and the reader are plunged into a complexity of motives and opportunities which provide us with one of John Rhode's most ingenious plots.